In Qinglong Temple, it has only been less than half a day since Pei Tan left, and the temple has been restored to be as quiet as ever, as if these six days have never existed.

Master Xuanlian sat cross-legged on the futon and muttered sutras, and a little monk came in, holding the envelope in his hand: "Master, Lord Siqing has left you a letter. ”

Master Xuanlian paused, the little monk stepped forward and handed over the envelope, and Xuanlian reached out to take it.

The wax on the seal of the envelope melted a little, and Master Xuanlian slowly opened it and opened the letter inside, but saw that there was nothing on the letter, and it was empty.

A voice in the corner said: "The little monk secretly opened the letter, but unfortunately, he didn't have the ability to read the meaning of adults." ”

Xuanlian immediately looked over, Jing Wan'er walked out, she didn't go back to Chang'an with the carriage, but stayed.

Xuan Lian looked at Jing Wan'er and muttered, "Why is Miss Jing here? ”

Jing Wan'er smiled: "My lord has a few words, I want Wan'er to speak to the abbot in detail on his behalf." "It seems that this is the right thing to do, and with the act of the little monk just now, it is not advisable to leave a letter at all.

Xuanlian's eyes were a little deep: "What does Pei Siqing want to say to Lao Gao?" ”

Jing Wan'er looked at the face of the old monk Xuanlian, his face was very similar to the Buddha behind him, kind eyebrows and kind eyes, so gentle and sad.

She was finally able to move her mouth and slowly utter a sentence.

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The sin does not reach the family. This is a bottom line that many people would rather abide by than die even if they are in danger of living in the world.

Zhongzong stared at Pei Tan coldly, but as soon as the emperor was angry, how many people would suffer.

"Your Majesty don't worry." Pei Tan raised a thin face, "Except for the minister, no one knows who Concubine Wang De is, and no one cares whether she is dead or alive." ”

If no one cares about Concubine De's life or death, no one will pursue it. To put it bluntly, a generation of imperial concubines can't make a wave at all when they die.

Zhongzong said coldly, "You have the courage to tell me what you have been doing in Qinglong Temple these days." ”

Pei Tan said: "Your Majesty wants the minister to say, and the minister is willing to tell Your Majesty 1510." ”

Zhongzong's eyebrows moved: "Are you provoking me?" ”

Pei Tan remained motionless: "The minister doesn't dare." ”

Zhongzong stared at him: "Go on, I will listen to what you have to say." ”

Pei Tan was quiet for a long time, and said slowly: "The servants of Chen Dali Temple have already examined the body of Concubine De Niangniang, and I am sure that Concubine De Niangniang died of drowning, and Niangniang committed suicide by throwing herself into a well. ”

Zhongzong leaned indifferently against the table. Even if it is believed that Concubine De is drowning, there is still a long distance between her suicide by throwing herself into a well.

Pei Tan then said: "The minister has just entered the Qinglong Temple, and he is going to escort the prince back to Chang'an City the next day. On the second day, the abbot's disciple Huigen was found dead in the attic where the prince of Changle was meditating, and the prince was implicated for no reason, and later the minister found that the murder weapon was a wooden fish displayed in the room, but in Huigen's throat, the minister found that there was a poisonous fruit of alocasia, and before it could be swallowed, Huigen died. ”

In the entire hall, there was only Pei Tan's lonely voice.

"Chen, I have always been puzzled by the Alocasia fruit, and Huigen's death really has nothing to do with the toxicity of the Alocasia fruit. The minister can only exclude Alocasia and trace it from the line of who killed Huigen, that is, who can kill a young holy monk with advanced cultivation. Until that night, Concubine De showed her feet in a panic and wanted to take the wooden fish away from the scene of the crime, so that the minister had to believe that it was Concubine De who committed the murder. Only the murderer will venture back, but unfortunately, after seeing Concubine De, he really can't believe that Concubine De can make an action to kill Huigen with one blow. ”

The reason is that Huigen is far younger and more powerful than Concubine De, who is still a weak woman who does not know any martial arts.

"Since it's not Concubine De, Concubine De's abnormal behavior can't be explained. The case of Qinglong Temple is not an exaggeration to say that it is the most bizarre, the murderer is not the murderer, and the dead person is shrouded in a greater mystery, and the minister once lost confidence in this case. ”

Zhongzong finally sneered at this time: "The Dali Siqing I chose really didn't disappoint me. ”

Pei Tan can now kneel here and directly face Zhongzong, which shows that he not only did not lose confidence in this case, but also successfully cracked the case.

Pei Tan said slowly: "When analyzing the motive for the murder in this case, someone deliberately took advantage of the reputation of the prince, and Huigen broke the scandal between the prince and Concubine De and was killed, no matter who intentionally spread this rumor, it was all to interfere with the sight and confuse the public. And Huigen was not actually killed, on the contrary, he was the murderer who was sent to kill Princess De. ”

Zhongzong's expression had become extremely sharp when he heard this.

"The reason why Your Majesty wants to give Concubine De the death cannot be investigated. A person like Concubine De is destined not to die in the palace, and when His Majesty asked Concubine De to go to Qinglong Temple, he must have told her that he was just sending her a monk. "No one knows that they are going to die, and they remain silent all the way.

"Your Majesty must be sure that Concubine De will die if she goes to Qinglong Temple. Even if Concubine De is unwilling to die, someone has to send her on the road, and such a thing can only be handed over to the monks of Qinglong Temple to do. Ordinary monks naturally can't be His Majesty's henchmen, and only those who are abbots can be trusted by His Majesty. ”

Pei Tan slowly, looking at Zhongzong. The status of Qinglong Temple is destined to be no longer an ordinary Buddhist temple, and it can only be controlled by imperial power behind it. "Before the dead man carries out the assassination mission, he must have hidden poison in his teeth, Your Majesty, Huigen is under your secret order to kill Concubine De, right?"

If you swallow the alocia fruit into your stomach, the root of wisdom will die.

Zhongzong said coldly: "Pei Tan, you are not qualified enough to interrogate me. ”

Pei Tan lowered his eyes, no one in the world was qualified, and even when he stepped into this Zichen Hall today, he put his life down.

"From the beginning... The prince was regarded as the target of the public. Abbot Xuanlian had already hinted at the ministers when he first met them. ”

hinted that Dali Temple should not pursue the case, implying that the other party is the identity of the current prince. But anyone who knows Pei Tan knows that Pei Tan will not give up investigating the case because of this, and such a hint is nothing more than retreating into advance, hoping that Dali Temple will investigate. Sure enough, Pei Tan checked it out.

"Playing with the ministers in the palm of your hand, the ministers are vain and high-minded, but they are only a chess piece for Your Majesty." An indescribable emotion suddenly appeared in Pei Tan's eyes.

So much so that after a long while, he continued to say: "At this point, the Alocasia flower was brought to the temple by the prince, and the dead Concubine De is directly related to the prince, if the Dali Temple is allowed to handle the case according to the clues, the prince can only be the only suspect." Even when the minister went to see the prince for the last time last night, the prince had already expected the ending, but he still didn't say a word to the minister. ”

Li Xiuqi has always been silent, even a little too silent. Anyone who has at least one or two words of justification when all signs point to him.

"The prince does not defend himself, perhaps because after the death of Concubine De, the prince has decided to take this case on himself according to His Majesty's arrangement."

Even if Li Xiuqi was the king of the county, when Zhongzong wanted to deal with him, he couldn't help it. In particular, Concubine De is dead and committed suicide by throwing herself into a well.

Zhongzong began to pace in the hall, back and forth, from the way he looked at Pei Tan, his murderous intent was still clearly imprinted on his face.

He suddenly paused: "Pei Tan, I ask you, who killed Huigen?" ”

Pei Tan just said so clearly, Huigen's death has nothing to do with the toxicity of Alocasia fruit. Before he could swallow the poisonous fruit, he had already been killed.

Zhongzong stared at Pei Tan, and he also wanted to know the answer.

Now Concubine Wang De is dead, but it was not killed by Huigen sent by the Zhongzong, and Huigen also died.

As a high temple and no one knows the mystery of the Zhongzong, how can he not be curious.

Pei Tan and Zhongzong looked at each other, "In the temple, Jing Wan'er used the fumigation method to make the blood stains on the wooden fish visible. It also made the minister determine that the wooden fish was the murder weapon. On the visible bloodstains, the minister saw the murderer's fingerprints. ”

In the two steps of the fumigation method, Jing Wan'er only showed the murderer's fingerprints in front of Pei Tan.

Zhongzong's eyes were aggressive: "What about Jing Wan'er, why wasn't she by your side when the city gate was checked?" ”

Not only Jing Wan'er, but also Pei Guard, who had been protecting Pei Tan like a shadow, did not return to Chang'an.

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"Master Xuanlian, why did you kill your beloved apprentice?"

When Jing Wan'er asked this sentence, she was also full of incomprehension and resentment, just like her subversive reaction when she knew that the charity old monk in front of her was the real murderer.

Compared to her shocked bewilderment, Master Xuanlian only slowly raised his eyes, and the wrinkles covered all of his expressions.

"Pei Siqing gave Lao Wei a letter without writing, which actually made Lao Wei think that when the Queen of Heaven died, only let the descendants erect a wordless monument, in this regard, how can Lao Qu be compared with the Queen of Heaven."

Jing Wan'er was a little heartbeating, sure enough, Xuanlian was just pretending to be stupid, he knew everything.

Xuanlian said: "Huigen, it was sent away by the old man himself. ”

Monks, for the words life and death, are still different from ordinary people. When he said that when he sent him away with his own hands, Jing Wan'er didn't believe that he said it so easily.

In Qinglong Temple, it is said that Xuanlian is becoming more and more depressed for Huigen, and it is impossible for a monk to have a biological child, but Huigen was raised by Xuanlian. Don't say that it is a monk who eats fasting and recites Buddha, it is an ordinary person, how can he kill a person who has been raised by himself for many years.

"In order to blame the prince, he did not hesitate to kill his disciples?" Because of this, Jing Wan'er is difficult to understand.

Kill one life to blame another, and what do you gain by doing such a sinful thing?

I saw Xuanlian shaking her head: "Huigen can't bear to kill Concubine Wang De, he begged Lao Wei and was willing to replace her with his body." ”

Jing Wan'er was stunned, and her heart reacted, "You said that Huigen died for Concubine Wang De?" ”

Concubine De was supposed to die quietly on the first night, so Jing Wan'er and Dali Temple couldn't find anything later, but Concubine De lived until yesterday. Still not sparing the doom.